Trends in Retail: The Growing Popularity of Bespoke Shopping
After a year of shopping online, expectations for the in-store experience are projected to be significantly higher as shoppers re-enter the brick and mortar space.
3 Ideas for Adapting Offices, Lobbies & Waiting Rooms for a Post-COVID World
As many locations are re-opening with health measures still in place, here are three easy steps to adapt offices and shared work spaces, as well as lobbies and waiting rooms, for this new world.
Developing Commitment Through Employee Recognition
Across industries, employee retention is an expensive problem. Here are four tips for developing an effective employee recognition program that addresses worker satisfaction and helps meet company…
Trends in Retail: Creating an Experience
Now more than ever, customers and clients are looking for unique experiences as part of their brick-and-mortar shopping. From creating Instagram-able installations to interactive displays,…
How to Operate with a “People First” Mindset & Why It’s Worth It
Many company’s core values center around teammates and clients. There’s real potential in taking a “People First” approach. Here’s how adaptable and valuable the idea can be.
Three Reasons Why Encouraging Work/Life Balance Works
A critical part of being a company with culture is encouraging a healthy work/life balance for employees. We believe in working to live, not living to work, and would like to share how this idea has…
The Tools You Need for a Successful Active Remodel
No matter how well you care for your store, eventually, every retail space needs repairs. Because you shouldn’t have to sacrifice customer experience to get the renovations you need, here’s some key…
Trends in Retail: Combined Fulfillment Spaces
With the growth of e-commerce, brick-and-mortar retailers must look for new ways to appeal to customers across the globe and to compete with giant online sellers. Following the wave of ship-to-store…
Three Steps to Inter-Departmental Collaboration
Teams are built from shared goals and shared experiences, so what happens when your people are spread across departments, possibly in different buildings, cities, or states? Here’s three tips that…
PLENTY IN STORE FOR RETAILERS
The challenge of planning, opening and running a retail or commercial establishment—meeting the needs of a throng of customers day after day—has met its match in The MDC Group (MDC).
THE VALUE OF INTERNSHIPS
Dear Potential Interns, I come from a family where no one has ever worked in construction and I had little-to-no experience with the construction industry before school. Going into college, I quickly…
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
We see and hear the term “employee engagement” quite frequently these days but, depending on which of the 2,740,000 Google links you click on, the definition varies.
THE PLATINUM RULE – THE PREDICTIVE INDEX
Most parents I know taught their children about the Golden Rule when they were growing up,
THE COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION CLIMATE
Currently, inside the construction industry, it is well-known fact that we have a labor shortage. This deficiency has heavily influenced two aspects of our business: hiring and costs.